Siegbert Tarrasch Chess Quotes & Sayings

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player — Siegbert Tarrasch

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy. — Siegbert Tarrasch

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn. — Siegbert Tarrasch

I regard myself as a woman who has seen much of life. — Belle Starr

I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive. — Lady Gaga

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent — Siegbert Tarrasch

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. — Muhammad Yunus

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned. — Siegbert Tarrasch

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid. — Yannick Noah

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity. — Siegbert Tarrasch

The future belongs to he who has the bishops. — Siegbert Tarrasch

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king. — Siegbert Tarrasch

Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so. — George Eliot

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy. — Siegbert Tarrasch

He acted as if he could detect in her face nothing but its external beauties of form and texture. Whereas, of course, flesh is never wholly opaque; the soul shows through the walls of its receptacle. — Aldous Huxley

A lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations. — Siegbert Tarrasch

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess — Siegbert Tarrasch

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago — Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about! — Siegbert Tarrasch

I can't give you the moon," the tinker said. "She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself. — Patrick Rothfuss

I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch

She let Sicarius lead since he had that knack for getting people to move out of his way without doing anything. Amaranthe, on the other hand, received elbows in the ribs or suggestive jostles from drunken men. Maybe she should try wearing all black and glaring more often. — Lindsay Buroker

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game — Siegbert Tarrasch

A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. — Siegbert Tarrasch

What is the object of playing a gambit opening? ... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game — Siegbert Tarrasch

Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns — Siegbert Tarrasch

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game — Siegbert Tarrasch

I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour. — Tim Curry

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch

I look one move ahead ... the best! — Siegbert Tarrasch

It is not enough to be a good player ... you must also play well — Siegbert Tarrasch

As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack. — Siegbert Tarrasch

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game? — Siegbert Tarrasch

So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere. — Albert Hadley